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Is Revolution Brewing In Iran?

by Editorial Staff • June 17, 2009 • Comments Off

This commentary was posted over on Huffington Post. Nathan is one of OC’s strong Democrats and published author – expert in Iranian politics. Is A Revolution Brewing In Iran Following the announcement by Iran’s Interior Ministry that incumbent president Mahmoud…

by Chris Prevatt • June 5, 2009 • 1 Comment

I found the following AP story over on MSNBC.com this morning. Seems that gay couples adopting and successfully raising children is natural afterall. Gay penguin pair raising chick Males incubated abandoned egg for a month and continue to care for…

by Misha Houser • June 4, 2009 • 2 Comments

In case you all were wondering what the big-eared hieroglyph that Obama joked about today, saying that it looked like him means… It is pronounced like the word “hair” and is commonly spelled “her” by Egyptologists. The hieroglyph was spotted…

by Chris Prevatt • June 4, 2009 • 2 Comments

CAIRO – “This cycle of suspicion and discord must end,” Obama said in a widely anticipated speech in one of the world’s largest Muslim countries, an address designed to reframe relations after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and…

by Chris Prevatt • June 3, 2009 • 1 Comment

Twenty years ago today the Tiananmen Square protestscame to and end. Chinese government tanks cleared Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. In Beijing, the resulting military response to the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or severely…

by Misha Houser • April 29, 2009 • 5 Comments

The article below was posted on the Los Angeles based 501c3 group, The Public RecordÂ websiteÂ today. An FBI email claims that “W” signed an executive order approving torture. This explosive bit of information should further heat up the debate over torture.…

by Dan Chmielewski • April 28, 2009 • Comments Off

If you count on the Register for climate change coverage, go to the news pages where they actually do a nice job.Â But go to the Orange Punch blog, and you’ll get anything but unbiased coverage.Â Climate change and global…